Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis